the winter garden......

ok, so i am having mixed results with plants over these gloomy indoor months........while i have a lovely amaryllis blooming.......a bulb that i have managed to coddle over several seasons.....and i have a geranium in bloom as well...but......i have also killed off 2..count em two........ivy topiaries......greenery trained on tuteurs.....and these were the plants i was most careful about.....it was as if they willed themselves to die despite my best efforts.......a fauna version of suicide, perhaps......and so i will drag the pots and frames back to garage......and rearrange the plants that remain in the downstairs bathroom....the one with the jacuzzi tub...the one where i thought they had the best chance at survival with southern exposure, moisture......how very vexing.....considering that the nursury where i bought the ivy closed up.....and i really don't want to go to lowes, or walmart in search.......but back to the amaryllis...it is red and white striped....and just precious.......ah....let me just see the glass as half full for a few moments.........